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Pinko Bank Manager: UnityTrust, FirstDirect, HSBC, Cod-economist. Infuriatingly impatient. NED at Cabinet & Home Off. Chair IDCard Review Panel in 2000s.
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Colin Fraser posted samples of ChatGTP o3 math stupidity within minutes of o3 being available: “Solve 9.8+2x=x+9.11” o3: answer : x=0.31 (Correct answer x=-0.69) So a basic arithmetic fail, not even an algebra fail. I find that oddly amusing and somehow reassuring.

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Not even the 10% Trump tariff on Russia. (Sanctions apply, but trade not banned is Trump-tariff-free.)

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FT’s explainer of Trump’s tariff rates. Spoiler: tax on trade gap, not a reciprocal tax. ‘But the US doesn’t grow bananas’. (Free to read) www.ft.com/content/e025...

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One for @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and @rory-stewart.bsky.social - History rhyming from the brilliant @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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Great context for today’s US politics from 15 March 1830. Thanks Heather. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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Lucy Kellaway, we need you back. www.ft.com/content/d534...

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Due to this idiotic statement, by a person who has proven his inability to distinguish truth from online propaganda, I just donated to Wikipedia. Please do the same.

submitted 128 days ago • 100 comments

"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...

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